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Subito

The appeal here, quite aside from some excellent playing, is in the way the programme has been planned. My personal preference with...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW17

TYE Complete Consort Music (Phantasm)

A contemporary of Tallis and Sheppard, Christopher Tye was a composer apart. His ear for harmony, his eye for a musical line, seem to...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW17

STRAVINSKY Music for Violin Vol 1

Two gentle miniatures programmed here are surely among the most carefree and seductive that Stravinsky ever composed, the ‘Russian Maiden’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW17

SCHURMANN Chamber Music Vol 3

Toccata Classics renews its coverage of Gerard Schurmann, Javanese-born British composer resident in the US. Early established for his film scores,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW17

MOZART Violin Sonatas (Ibragimova & Tiberghien)

Scarcely a note of adverse criticism has attended the three previous issues in this delightful series of accompanied sonatas from...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW17

MAXWELL DAVIES The Last Island

A keen sense of time and place – and increasingly of man’s transient existence within it – forms an important theme in...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW17

HAKIM Phèdre. Caprice. Diptyque. Piano Concerto

Composers and performers alike may strive for an improvisatory impulse in their music-making, but that’s rather different from allowing improvisatory freedom...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW17

DVOŘÁK; SUK Piano Quartets

The Josef Suk Piano Quartet take their name from the great violinist rather than his composer grandfather, whose Op 1 they perform....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW17

BUXTEHUDE Trio Sonatas Op 1

In their quickly expanding discography Jonathan Cohen’s Arcangelo are showing themselves to be among the most versatile ensembles around, as...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW17

BOYLE Music for Clarinet

Music of high organisation, clarity and expressive power here from Rory Boyle, born in Ayr in 1951 and currently professor...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW17

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